Feb. 27, 2015

Feb. 26, 2015

Feb. 26, 2015

Carmela Ciuraru reviews books Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link, I Regret Everything: A Love Story by Seth Greenland; After Birth by Elisa Albert, A History of Loneliness by John Boyne, My Documents by Alejandro Zambra and Making Nice by Matt Sumell. MORE

Feb. 25, 2015

Dwight Garner reviews book Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man by Robert Christgau. MORE

Feb. 24, 2015

Michiko Kakutani reviews book The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. MORE

Feb. 24, 2015

Photographer Xu Yong insists that his latest book Negatives, which features images he shot during 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and has since kept hidden, is only meant to be art, not political commentary; publication of book is risky move, as many Chinese have recently been detained for sharing pictures of or even discussing 1989 protests. MORE

Feb. 24, 2015

Dr Abigail Zuger reviews book He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him by Mimi Baird. MORE

Feb. 23, 2015

Roslyn Sulcas reviews book Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia by Janice Ross. MORE

Feb. 22, 2015

Vicki Constantine Croke reviews book H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald. MORE

Feb. 22, 2015

By the Book interview with Richard Price, whose latest book is The Whites, written under the pen name Harry Brandt. MORE

Feb. 22, 2015

Anya Ulinich reviews book Fatherland: A Family History by Nina Bunjevac. MORE

Feb. 22, 2015

Feb. 22, 2015

Feb. 22, 2015

Brenda Wineapple reviews books Mark Twain's America: A Celebration in Words and Images by Harry L Katz and the Library of Congress and Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece by Andrew Levy. MORE

Feb. 22, 2015

Feb. 20, 2015

James B Stewart Common Sense column observes since financial crisis hardly any top executives at big financial firms paying fines for engaging in criminal behavior have been charged or convicted; notes Brandon L Garrett's book Too Big to Jail points up this fact; holds prosecutorial track record in big cases is not encouraging. MORE

March 8, 2015, Sunday

Father Boyd was among a handful of white clergymen who became nationally known for civil rights and protesting war, and — after disclosing in 1976 that he was gay — fought for women and homosexuals in the church.